Sharon Lyon is a geologist and science educator. Her first novel, Fossil Woman, launched as a #1 Amazon Best-seller. The audiobook won an IBPA Benjamin Franklin Silver Award for Best Audiobook: Fiction, for 2023. Ms. Lyon has worked as a paleontologist, a petroleum geologist, and environmental scientist. However, her true passion is teaching and as a geology professor she shares her love of the earth with her students. Ms. Lyon earned a B.S. in geology from The College of William and Mary, and a M.S. in geology from The University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. She resides in Virginia.